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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1059
dc.contributor.author	Hodges Richard
dc.title	Butrint. Never a ‘non-place’
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This short essay takes its direction from Marc Auge’s definitions of places and non-places. It reviews the settlement shifts at Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, between late antiquity and the 12th century. Butrint had been a place since the late Republic, if not earlier; a centre associated with mythic origins and healing. Located in at least three different places, Butrint after antiquity took three different physical forms, but appears to have sustained its association with a mythic past. Remaining not only a trading centre of varying importance, did the memory of its antiquity safeguard its continuity albeit in very different locations and settlement forms?
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-07-12
dc.dateAccepted	2016-09-17
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-08-25
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-114-0/butrint/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-115-7/SR-4-5
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-114-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-115-7
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Adriatic
dc.subject	Adriatic
dc.subject	Byzantine
dc.subject	Byzantine
dc.subject	Middle Ages
dc.subject	Middle Ages

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Butrint

Never a ‘non-place’

Richard Hodges American University of Rome, Italia

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This short essay takes its direction from Marc Auge’s definitions of places and non-places. It reviews the settlement shifts at Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, between late antiquity and the 12th century. Butrint had been a place since the late Republic, if not earlier; a centre associated with mythic origins and healing. Located in at least three different places, Butrint after antiquity took three different physical forms, but appears to have sustained its association with a mythic past. Remaining not only a trading centre of varying importance, did the memory of its antiquity safeguard its continuity albeit in very different locations and settlement forms?

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July 12, 2017

Accepted

Sept. 17, 2016

Submitted

Aug. 25, 2016

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978-88-6969-114-0

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978-88-6969-115-7

Keywords: Adriatic • Middle Ages • Byzantine

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-115-7/SR-4-5

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